Wheelchair-bound man killed by train inside crossing gates

Wheelchair-bound man killed by train inside crossing gates

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a railway crossing in Habikino, Osaka, where a man in an electric wheelchair, who appeared to be in his 60s, was struck and killed on April 5 by a train of Kinki Nippon Railway Co., while attempting to cross the tracks after the gates began to descend. Police said the man went through the gate and began to cross the tracks even though the warning bell was sounding.

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